With two films about the Indonesian genocide, the Oscar-nominated ‘The Act of Killing’ and this month’s ‘The Look of Silence,’ director Joshua Oppenheimer — aided by an anonymous codirector — shines light on an unspeakable tragedy

In 2011, 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was killed in his upstate New York home. Years passed with no arrest, and now Nick Hillary, a former college soccer coach and an ex-boyfriend of Phillips’s mother, awaits trial on a murder charge. But Hillary and a vocal group of supporters say that he has been wrongfully accused.

Afternoon Links: Jon Stewart’s Taking the Summer Off to Direct a Movie

Jon Stewart is taking a 12-week hiatus from his Daily Show desk to direct Rosewater, a feature-film adaptation of Maziar Bahari‘s Then They Came for Me. Stewart wrote the script, then “quietly optioned the book through his Busboy Productions banner” like the sneaky overachiever that he is. John Oliver will take over hosting during Stewart’s absence. In a 2009 appearance on The Daily Show, Bahari joked (well, half-joked) to Stewart that he was imprisoned for 118 days in Iran “because of you.”

Janky just got more janky. Related: It’s time to start writing novelty songs so you can take a 12-week hiatus to work with Diplo, 2 Chainz, and Tyga on the remix.

The Hold Steady will be performing a song for Game of Thrones called “The Bear and the Maiden Fair.” Sample lyrics: “A bear there was/a bear, A BEAR!/All black and brown/And covered with hair!” Diplo? You hear this??

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